379 pages 22 cm

PART 1. FROM SARAJEVO TO HIROSHIMA: The Technical Surprise Dynamism of Total War ; The Leninist Myth of Imperialism ; War and the Total State ; Necessity and Accident -- PART 2. CROSSROADS OF HISTORY: The Rise of the Peripheral States ; From Marxism to Stalinism ; Expansion of Stalinism ; The Atomic Age ; Logic and Chance -- PART 3. LIMITED WAR: The Conventions of the Cold War ; Reversal of Alliances ; Intercontinental Equilibrium ; Stalinism and the Shade of the Past ; The Cold War-Preparation or Substitute for Total War? -- PART 4. A HELPLESS EUROPE?: Dialectic of the Extremes ; The National Socialisms ; Can Europe Live? ; Can Europe Unite? ; Has Europe a Historic Vitality? ; CONCLUSION. THE STAKE: After Stalin ; The End of the Socialist Myth ; Faith Without Illusions

Includes bibliographical references and index

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